Books to get teenager boy reading!

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Can anyone recommend books to get a teenage boy regarding again? Done diary of a wimpy kid, Tom Gates. Never liked maze runner alex rider. He does prefer factual books but has to take fiction book into school to read. Many thanks

Thank you everyone, lots to look into. DS is 13 the Martian looks good and the bodyguard series. Also was thinking of Tim Peake's new book.

Last samurai (series of nine books), Percy Jackson series of books

Enders game is brilliant

As young teens my geeky sons loved Skulduggery Pleasant, Hitchhiker's Guide, Percy Jackson, anything by Trudi Canavan (Magician's Apprentice etc), Eragon. Later on Terry Pratchett, Lord of the Rings, The Wheel of Time, Adrian Mole, Philip Pullman. I realise there is a strong fantasy theme here - they also play a lot of online games!
One of them (and one of my nephews) only started to read on his own when I got him a book on my Kindle, so that might be something to try.

I always recommend comics. Take him to Forbidden Planet.

Patrick Ness, Chaos Walking trilogy. "Hard" science fiction generally goes down well with children - I discovered Jules Verne & HG Wells when I was 8 or 9 and have read science fiction ever since, I know girls tend to read earlier than boys but my elder son was a reluctant reader and he did the same when slightly older.

Is he into Zombies? Ds1 loves a series by Charlie Higson. I think the first book is called The Enemy.

Omg Adrian mole!! Me and dh were ‘crumblies’ for ages after ds read it

I think the Little Prince is something even little boys should read. It's a good one and with lots of inspiring points in life even the youth can relate to.

Debby08 maybe little boys in 1947, not 2017. The idea is something to get this teenaged lad reading, not something he "should" read.

Comics - x men , marvel ones , hulk.
You can buy a set in a graphic novel so they get the whole story rather than individual comics.
My son loved them and still does at 19.

When my DS was 12/13 he never read any books until he discovered Darren Shan. He would recommend them as they are not too 'heavy' and easy to get into. They are a little dark though, but that's what my DS loved! He also like the Cressida Cowell dragon books at that age. My advice would be to take an interest yourself in the books and chat about the storylines together. Hope that helps.

Matt Dickinson has written a trilogy called The Everest Files. They are fiction but the author climbed Everest in real life so they are quite non-fiction feeling. Not very good English, you know what I mean.